Eastman Johnson. Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance.
He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.
Eastman Johnson, 1890s, albumen print by Edwin S. Bennett, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC Eastman Johnson's portrait of his brother, Commodore Philip Carrigan Johnson, oil on canvas, 21 × 25 in., 1876 Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, one of the eight children of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler. His siblings were brothers Reuben and Philip, sisters Harriet, Judith, Mary, Sarah and Nell.
Eastman grew up in Fryeburg and Augusta, where the family lived at Pleasant Street and later at 61 Winthrop Street. His father was the owner of several businesses, and active in fraternal organizations: he was Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Maine.
He was appointed in 1840 as Secretary of State for Maine, serving two years. Comparison of Cranberry Pickers, Nan
He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.
Eastman Johnson, 1890s, albumen print by Edwin S. Bennett, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC Eastman Johnson's portrait of his brother, Commodore Philip Carrigan Johnson, oil on canvas, 21 × 25 in., 1876 Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, one of the eight children of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler. His siblings were brothers Reuben and Philip, sisters Harriet, Judith, Mary, Sarah and Nell.
Eastman grew up in Fryeburg and Augusta, where the family lived at Pleasant Street and later at 61 Winthrop Street. His father was the owner of several businesses, and active in fraternal organizations: he was Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Maine.
He was appointed in 1840 as Secretary of State for Maine, serving two years. Comparison of Cranberry Pickers, Nan
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